Pain genes.

Pain, which afflicts up to 20% of the population at any time, provides both a massive therapeutic challenge and a route to understanding mechanisms in the nervous system. Specialised sensory neurons (nociceptors) signal the existence of tissue damage to the central nervous system (CNS), where pain i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tom Foulkes, John N Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-07-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2432024?pdf=render